Attebury

Attefact: independently checkable evidence for claims

I open-sourced Attefact.

A claim is cheap. Evidence that still matches the claim six months later is not. Most systems store a URL, a screenshot, or a "verified" flag, then treat that as proof forever. Links rot. Pages change. Archives disappear. The flag stays green.

Attefact is a small evidence engine for that problem. It's not a product for one domain. It doesn't decide what a claim means. It answers a narrower question: given a claim, how do you attach independently checkable evidence, keep that evidence honest over time, and leave room for a person to vouch for the parts no public artifact can prove?

v0.2.0 is out. Nine evidence kinds. Three bindings: pin a git object, snapshot a URL and hash the response, or upload a file that has no origin URL. A rot-detection state machine: unverified, live, drifted, unreachable, archived. Insert-only schema for Postgres and SQLite, with triggers that actually block updates and deletes.

If you're building something that has to keep receipts, start here: github.com/attebury/attefact